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Autogynephilia isn’t new. The fetishization of lesbians isn’t new. Being shamed for our orientation isn’t new. Men wanting to “cure us” isn’t new.
What’s new, what’s absolutely shameful, is our supposed allies are ordering us to open our doors, be nice, & welcome our enemies in.
What’s new, what’s absolutely shameful, is our supposed allies are ordering us to open our doors, be nice, & welcome our enemies in.
The autogynephilia doesn’t make them our enemy. What makes them our enemy is what the same thing that makes anyone our enemy: refusal to accept our exclusive same-sex attraction, and our right to express it, as real and moral.
They become our enemy when they insist their need for us to pretend is more urgent than our need to be authentic, our right to speak our truth.
They’re our enemy because they won’t accept that we’ll never be sexually available to men.
We’ll NEVER be sexually available to men.
They’re our enemy because they won’t accept that we’ll never be sexually available to men.
We’ll NEVER be sexually available to men.
And I’m not sorry, and I won’t explain why not, or challenge my preferences, or any of that homophobic rape culture bullshit.
Lesbians are a population of women who are a living “NO” to the sexual needs of men.
Aren’t we allowed to do that?
Goddamn right we are.
Lesbians are a population of women who are a living “NO” to the sexual needs of men.
Aren’t we allowed to do that?
Goddamn right we are.
A lot of people follow me because they desperately want to understand the experiences of trans-ID’d people. I get it. I want to understand, too. That’s what drives my writing.
But I don’t see people putting that kind of effort into understanding the experiences of lesbians.
But I don’t see people putting that kind of effort into understanding the experiences of lesbians.
There’s so much empathy for the men who “feel like women,” so much effort to make the world a place they can live with dignity.
Well, we lesbians have just a few little patches of the world where WE can live as ourselves, with dignity. And we’re being ordered to surrender them.
Well, we lesbians have just a few little patches of the world where WE can live as ourselves, with dignity. And we’re being ordered to surrender them.
Do you want to know what it feels like to be a lesbian in 2019? It’s humiliating. Isolating. Depressing. We’re forced to choose between our communities and our dignity - Show up and play nice for the fetishists, or stay home and live as though you never came out.
They built a second closet for us. We have to pretend not to know what a woman is, or what our orientation actually is. We have to feign same-“gender” attraction, because, once again, homosexuality is seen as an abomination. Once again, we are sin.
Half the people I care about see me as a sinner because their religion says it’s so.
Most of the rest, all those friends I made after I fled my fundamentalist hometown - most of them either see me as a bigot or have no idea of my views on homosexuality being, you know, REAL.
Most of the rest, all those friends I made after I fled my fundamentalist hometown - most of them either see me as a bigot or have no idea of my views on homosexuality being, you know, REAL.
Now dating has two layers of danger - First, is she gay? Second, will she think I’m a nazi? Will she spread word of my beliefs?
Guys, I really wish I were exaggerating when I said that I stay home because I can’t bite my tongue well enough to know my family will stay safe.
Guys, I really wish I were exaggerating when I said that I stay home because I can’t bite my tongue well enough to know my family will stay safe.
I’m not going to run down the whole history of Michfest, and how hard those women fought to have a space where a few thousand lesbians could gather joyfully once a year. They did fight, though. They said no.
The fliers left on the women’s land by the men of “Camp Trans”:
The fliers left on the women’s land by the men of “Camp Trans”:
One of the AGP trans “activists” that led the charge of men (who camped outside the festival entrance with spears, harassing attendees) was Dana Rivers. He was a “T” darling for a while.
Then, in 2016, he murdered two Michfest lesbians & their son. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/07/transgender-activist-trial-oakland-triple-murder/
Then, in 2016, he murdered two Michfest lesbians & their son. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/07/transgender-activist-trial-oakland-triple-murder/
This is the “brave and stunning” man who harassed the women of Michfest. This is the “hero” who would go on to annihilate a lesbian family. He shot AND stabbed them, then tried to burn the bodies but couldn’t b/c all the blood.
Thx @DotAtomosBlog https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/27/us/after-sex-change-teacher-is-barred-from-school.html
Thx @DotAtomosBlog https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/27/us/after-sex-change-teacher-is-barred-from-school.html
Also, he wasn’t fired for being trans. They had other trans employees and had a plan to accommodate him. He was fired for repeated discussing details, including his sexuality, with his students, including one 16 y/o girl he spent time alone with in a locked classroom.
The media that loves crying out re: crimes against “trans women of color” has buried this story. They don’t cover it, even though these women were an interracial couple with a black son.
Don’t buy their claims to being champions of diversity. They don’t help poc, they use them.
Don’t buy their claims to being champions of diversity. They don’t help poc, they use them.
